Trust on trial
Subtitle: how the Microsoft case is reframing the rules of competition
By: Richard B. McKenzie.
Publisher: Perseus Pub.; Perseus Publishing
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Business competition; Competition law; Information technology industries; Restraint of trade; Corporate & Business History; Business/Economics; United States; Law; Business / Economics / Finance; Microsoft Corporation; USA; Corporate & Business History - General; Antitrust; Computer Industry; Trials, litigation, etc; Antitrust Law; Computer software industry; Law and legislation
First sentence: THE LAST QUARTER OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was remarkable for its technological and economic progress.
Description: "[A]rgues that government trust busters don't have a clue about how to effectively referee competition in today's industries that live or die at the caprice of innovation"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nation's major antitrust laws; title: From railway time to Internet time; title: Monopoly mantra; title: Little Linux; title: Digital predation; title: Digital switching; title: Innovative thinking; title: Mud farming; title: Politics 101; title: Politicizing antitrust; title: Antitrust ironies; title: Appendixes : I. Microsoft's legal troubles ; II. Summary of the major antitrust cases the Justice Department has brought against Microsoft